Bold words for someone who had the biggest game of the past years and left it to die. r n r nBetween the horrible launch, terrible optimization, dumb anti-consumer decisions, lack of updates and whatnot, all that Niantic proved is that they simply got lucky and had no idea how ...

Thanks And yeah, some games might look like garbage today, but they made a lot of sense in their own historical context. Hydlide gets a lot of hate, but I find the original Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy just as bad... it 's just that nostalgia blinds us from how ...

Agreed, too often these games are just preaching to the choir, and that will never bring any change. r n r nI think SimCity 2000 managed to do this right, as it was rarely a choice of good evil DO YOU POLUTE FOR MONEY OR RECYCLE FOR THE PLANET , ...

Yeah... so many games treat failure in interesting, creative ways - such as Planescape: Torment, Way of the Samurai, Super Meat Boy, Jagged Alliance 2, etc... and you write an article on Flappy Bird and Snow Horse

While a very interesting article, I find the tone dangerously naive... Yeah, some of the stories are shocking, but are they really exclusive to Japan r n r nI worked at a company where one of the CEOs threw a flower pot at a girl when she told him she ...

A lot is said about player entitlement, but the industry is riddled with privileges like this... r n r nIt 's disappointing how often we only get PR bullshit like X million copies shipped on day one , and never learn how many it actually sold. I even bet that ...

Not to get into a debate about economic theory, but a lot of your arguments show a naive confidence in the market as this amazing self-regulatory force that will make everything work perfectly once unrestrained. r n r nThe world around us proves things aren 't so simple - and ...

Always great to read this kind of news, I just hope they also go after more obscure developers. r n r nRichard Garriott is extremely important, but there are hundreds of interviews and even books on him... meanwhile, many pioneers such as Stuart Smith Adventure Creation Set were simply never ...